 We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.  The Dublin Review - Side 413redigeret af - 1860Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Alfred Henderson - 1869 - 526 sider
...comes a reck'ning when the banquet's oer, The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more." GAY. " Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught : Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought." SHELLEY. See " Inter dettcias." " Nihil at ab." " Omni malo." Medio... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1870 - 628 sider
...notes flow in such a crystal stream? XVIII. We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. XIX. Yet, if we could scorn Hate and pride and fear, If we were things bom Not... | |
 | William Cox Bennett - 1870 - 202 sider
...thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught : Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate and pride and fear ; If we were things born Not to shed... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1870 - 236 sider
...thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not ; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not to... | |
 | Natsume Suseki - 1988 - 188 sider
...are a few of the lines from those verses : We look before and after And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught, Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. However happy the poet may be, he just cannot pour out his joys in song with the... | |
 | Jane Somerville - 1990 - 156 sider
...pity for the dead. (PP 63) His Onm Wife Voyage We look before and after And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell Of saddest thoughts. —Shelley, 'To a Skylark' Nostalgia once had the status of a real disease; it... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 sider
...could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream? We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 sider
...spirits to the conquerors— (1. 127-128) 71 We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our . of saddest thought. (1. 86-90) 72 Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious... | |
 | Carol T. Olson - 1993 - 232 sider
...physical, was real. In Shelley's poem, "To a Skylark," dwells a deep sense of this meaning of healing. With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1994 - 752 sider
...could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream? We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. 90 Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not... | |
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